Canadian academic nursing librarians: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on librarianship practice.
Objective: This study explored changes in the practice of academic nursing librarianship at large Canadian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on academic nursing librarians' work with nursing graduate students and nursing faculty. Methods: Semi-structured interviews we...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 47 - 58 |
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Canadian Health Libraries Association
Aug2022
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